Scholarship

During my years as an undergrad at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Florida, I decided that I wanted to become both a writer and a historian. My first home in the world of graduate studies was the History Department at Georgetown University, where I earned a master’s in Middle East history. I wrote dozens of magazine and newspaper articles as I traveled through the Middle East in the years after Georgetown. Then I went to Oxford to get a doctorate. My thesis was supervised by Eugene Rogan, who was director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, my home at Oxford. I was awarded a D.Phil. in 2002, and my thesis won two awards. I have written a number of scholarly journal articles, book chapters and encyclopedia articles dealing with the Middle East. I also taught the Modern Middle East History survey course at George Washington University for three semesters. Future projects will include a book about the history of Kuwait in the years immediately before oil and articles on the camel trade in northern Arabia.

“Mauritius,” (Ch. 2), Indian Ocean: Five Island Nations. Helen C. Metz, ed. Washington: Library of Congress, 1995. [This book and others in the Country Studies series can be found on http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/]